Provides the wing with more strength and structure.
Airplanes that fly below the speed of sound typically... - Answer✔✔-... have wings that are perpendicular
to the aircraft's longitudinal axis.
Jet plane wings... - Answer✔✔-... are swept back.
Swept back wings - Answer✔✔-Delay the drag associated with the air compressibility at high supersonic
speeds.
Delta Wing - Answer✔✔-Shaped like a triangle
Variable Geometry Wings - Answer✔✔-Allow the pilot to swing the wings forward to a position that is
roughly perpendicular to the fuselage for take-off, landing, and flight at low airspeeds.
Parts of an airplane - Answer✔✔-Fuselage, Wings, Empennage
Fuselage - Answer✔✔-Nose Section: Cockpit and Cabin
Empennage - Answer✔✔-Tail Section: Vertical Stabilizer & Rudder and Horizontal Stabilizer & Elevator
(or Stabilator)
Stabilator - Answer✔✔-An all moving horizontal and stabilizer- elevator
Aileron - Answer✔✔-Location: Outer, trailing edge of the wing
Purpose: (1) Used to perform banking turns (2) Control rotation about the longitudinal axis
How: Move opposite to each (one on each wing)
Trim Tab - Answer✔✔-Location: Rear of the rudder, elevator, and one aileron
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